- Title
- The middle distance: a reflection on craft and art
- Creator
- Boey, Kim Cheng
- Relation
- Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language & Literature Vol. 6, Issue 2, p. 19-30
- Relation
- http://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic/index.php/AJELL/article/view/256
- Publisher
- International Islamic University Malaysia, Department of English Language and Literature
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2012
- Description
- In The Breaking of Style Helen Vendler examines the point in three poets' careers when a radical departure from an established style occurs, often in response to a crisis or a change in orientation to art and life. For me the moment of rupture or reversal occurred with the act of migration. From movement and departure, my work has gravitated to a poetic of return and homecoming. The essay attempts to identify this moment of change, and also traces the threads of continuity, the abiding influences from my beginnings as a writer, and which are continuing to shape my emigrant life and work.
- Subject
- creative writing; migration; memory; poetry; identity; Singapore
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1307035
- Identifier
- uon:21314
- Identifier
- ISSN:1985-3106
- Language
- eng
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